2024 Edition

Body of Evidence
11 July / 2 November 2024

Director Veronica Nicolardi
Artistic Director Paolo Woods
Photography Curator Kublaiklan

Statement by the Artistic Director

From the moment photography was born, the body immediately established itself as one of the focal subjects of this new medium. The body to be discovered, laid bare, observed. A place for pleasure, but also for pain, at once vulnerable and incredibly powerful.
Now, more than ever, the body has become the field for every battle, whether over identity, gender or politics, individual or collective. The body can be commodified or sanctified. The perfect body is a lie wrapped in an illusion. The body should be celebrated in all of its forms and in defiance of all diktats. It is a place of freedom and a space to be liberated. For medicine, it is an inexhaustible area of study. For technology, which longs for a machine-body, it is a tool to be improved. Most of all, however, the body is engaged in a never-ending battle against its own end, death.
If it is true that photography can serve as proof, Cortona 2024 unveils a “Body of Evidence”, where we explore the body and, along with it, ourselves.

Exhibitions

Cortona On The Move Award (Third edition)

From the 1,600 photographic projects submitted, the jury selected the following three winners: in first place Maria Abranches, with “MARIA”, who won the cash prize of €3,000 and the possibility of exhibiting her project at the 2026 edition of Cortona On The Move. In second place Ingmar Nolting, with “An Anthology of Changing Climate”, a project published on the LensCulture online platform together with Julia Wimmerlin, with “Stolen Language”.

Opening

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Portfolio Reviews

Tina Ahrens (Director of Photography ZEIT ONLINE)
Martina Bacigalupo (Picture Editor, 6 Mois),
Amnon Bar-Tur (Co-Founder, BarTur Photo Award)
Kitti Bolognesi (Curator and Council Member, G.R.I.N)
Giovanna Calvenzi (Journalist and Curator)
Krzysztof Candrowicz (Interdisciplinary curator, sociologist, researcher, project facilitator and activist)
Antonio Carloni (Deputy Director, Gallerie d’Italia-Torino)
Federica Chiocchetti (Director, Mbal – Musée des Beaux Arts de Locle)
Benedetta Donato (Independent curator, Romano Cagnoni Award Director)
Christian Gogolin (Senior Photo Editor, Geo Magazine)
Nathalie Herschdorfer (Curator and Director, Museum Photo Elysée)
Chiara Magni (Head of Public Engagement, Medici Senza Frontiere)
Emanuela Mirabelli (Photo Editor Marie Claire)
Katharina Mouratidi (Artistic and Managing Director of F3 gallery and art space, Berlin), Irene Opezzo (Photo Director and Producer)
Arianna Rinaldo (Photography Curator PhEST)
Laura Sackett (Creative Director and Co-Founder, LensCulture).

Vittoria Castagna Award (second edition)

The first edition of the Vittoria Castagna Prize was proposed in 2023. Launched by the ONTHEMOVE Cultural Association as part of the international photography festival Cortona On The Move, it is aimed at young people in training or who have already completed their studies (max. age 30) working in the field of marketing and communication for cultural production.
The project selection jury included, in addition to the board of the ONTHEMOVE Cultural Association, members of the festival team and experts working in the fields of cultural planning and management and marketing and communication for culture, some of whom were representatives of the educational institutions where the call for entries was circulated, in particular

ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI DI BRESCIA SANTAGIULIA – Camilla Gualina – Coordinator of the Schools of Art Didactics for Museums and Communication and Exploitation of Artistic Heritage
FONDAZIONE FITZCARRALDO – Dario Consoli – Fondazione Fitzcarraldo Skills Development Project Manager, Cultural Manager and Communication Strategist
UNIVERSITA’ BOCCONI – Guido Guerzoni – Associate Professor of Museum Management at the Università Bocconi and CEO formules
Franklin University Switzerland – Giulia Miniero – Associate Professor of Marketing, Chair of the Business and Economics division
POLITECNICO DI MILANO School of Management – Eleonora Carloni – Assistant Professor of Management Engineering @Politecnico di Milano
24ORE Business School – Valentina Toscano – Content Manager Art & Culture
Future Concept Lab – Francesco Morace – Sociologist, essayist, co-founder of Future Concept Lab, international research and consultancy institute. Trend expert in social and market research
Future Concept Lab – Linda Gobbi – Sociologist, co-founder of Future Concept Lab, International Research and Consulting Institute. Specialises in research methodology, socio-cultural analysis models and consumer segmentation.

The award was given to Sara Spelta. Special mention to Sara Ziglioli.